"Not long ago the consultancy GameDiscoverCo released a study that most people were playing OLD games." I've long tried not to buy every console, because it ge

"Not long ago the consultancy GameDiscoverCo released a study that most people were playing OLD games." I've long tried not to buy every console, because it gets expensive for no good reason. So as our Switch is aging, I metaphorically poked my head up and put my finger to the wind... and decided our "next console" is the Steam Deck I already owned. And a big part of that decision is new games are frankly not any better than old games. They look better, and that's it, and that often comes at the cost of the real interactivity of the game anyhow. I wouldn't put a specific date on it, but game tech basically plateaued 10-15 years ago, even if the numbers keep going up. The graphics were good enough, especially if strong art direction knew how to use them. The tech for creating great games was basically all in place, and we got to where having 10 times the polygons just wasn't important anymore. Games are a lot more like movies to me now... I don't sit there looking at "was this movie 2021 or 2023?" as if that's going to indicate an important difference in quality, and games are getting to be that way for me.